composer, pianist, songwriter, film score composer, record producer
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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 and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work — it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Any musical form that has been around long enough to have cultural resonance beyond just being a cutting edge kind of communication - but, especially, when it begins to reflect on a time and reflect on a culture - is effective in a musical.
Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.
I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.