I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer... →
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to... →
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater... →
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a... →
Tabitha Soren
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not... →
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in... →
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would... →
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was... →