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One Of The Hardest Things About Writing Lyrics Is To Make The Lyrics Sit On The Music In Such A Way That You're Not Aware There Was A Writer There.

That's The Trouble With Awards For A Body Of Work. They Always Come At Both A Good Time And A Wrong Time. Good Because They Tell You What You've Been Doing Was Worth The Doing And Wrong Because They Ought To Come When You're Young And Excited And Hungry For Assurance That What You're Doing Is Worth The Doing.

Deciding What Is To Be Sung And What Is Not To Be Sung Is Really What Writing A Musical Is About.

The Worst Thing You Can Do Is Censor Yourself As The Pencil Hits The Paper. You Must Not Edit Until You Get It All On Paper. If You Can Put Everything Down, Stream-of-consciousness, You'll Do Yourself A Service.

Pointillism Takes Emotional Images, Character, Etc., And Makes Them All Come Together And Make A Whole That Tells A Story.