When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to ….

When I was a teenager in a band playing, everything was great. I still don't feel any different. I still wake up with the same love and passion as wh….

If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh..

When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is….

There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the….

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set ….

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you differ….

I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's a….

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyl….

I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world..

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about….