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I Have Had An Inordinate And Painful Concern For The Audience In My Writing Career.

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.

Write About The Thing That Frightens You Most.

When You Fight Something Long Enough, It Becomes A Center Pole Right In Your Life And You Count On It To Be There To Fight With.

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.