Music is equally important to math and science.

I hope and presume that the hiring methods are already open to interviewing or taking applications from anybody.

To do those things in a fiscally-responsible manner. One way to do that is to eliminate waste.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

The music is sort of a veil. It's melodic and up and fast, and you could lose yourself in it in a happy way, but the songs are about mortality and doing things you wish you hadn't done. Life is pretty fucking good for me, but I still think like it's all going to go away. It tempers everything I look at.

I always say it's like licking icing. You appreciate [Lloyd Webber's] music more when you look at the last 20 years on Broadway, and there aren't that many songs or Broadway hits anymore, the way there used to be. It's like seeing the history of musical theater laid out for you.