Jesus Was A Suicide, If You Ask

If Someone Wants To Say 'i Love You' In A Straight Play, They Say It, And Then It's The Other Person's Turn To Talk. But In A Song, You Can Sing About It For Another Three Minutes. The Musical Form Has That Unique Opportunity To Express At Length What Joy Really Feels Like.

I Grew Up At The Piano, And I Longed To Write Musicals.

Art Is How A Culture Records Its Life, How It Poses Questions For The Next Generation And How It Will Be Remembered.

Music Expresses Longing And Love And Joy Better Than Any Piece Of Dialogue You Can Ever Write.

We Have To Hear The Stories Of Women At All Ages Of Their Lives In Order To Really Present A Picture Of What It Felt Like To Be Alive In Our Time. That's What Our Job Is As Writers Is To Present That And Create It. Our Job As Writers Isn't To Make As Much Money As We Can. Our Job Is To Create A Record Of This Time. That's Why If You Leave Out Women And The Stories Of Women, We Failed At Our Mission. All Of Us. Men And Women.