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• ‟ Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

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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.

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• ‟ One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

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• ‟ Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

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• ‟ I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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• ‟ I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

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• ‟ I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

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