“I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects th...” — Alan Menken Quote

“I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.”

“Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.”

“Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.”

“Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.”

“After 1999, I thought that I needed a break. As a senior composer, I didn't like the trend of three music directors working on a single film. But after a few quiet years, I was back for good.”

“Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”