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.

- Alan Menken

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

- Alan Menken

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…

- Alan Menken

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.

- Alan Menken

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…

- Alan Menken

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

- Alan Menken

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.

- Alan Menken

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…

- Alan Menken

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 …

- Alan Menken