48 Quotes by Robert Lopez

I admire 'Urinetown.'

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

When a good idea sparks, it's usually because of some subversive angle that means the song we're writing will be fresh.

When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.