“My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other...” — Stephen Sondheim Quote

“My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.”

“I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.”

“When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.”

“Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.”

“That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.”

“No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.”