I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally..

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all th….

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey..

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work..

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting ….

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell..

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it..

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much….

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to….