From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

Imagine others complexly.

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

Music I do just for me.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.