Alan Menken

I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the criticism. All you can do is put your work out there and move on; you just never know what will come.

There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.

TV is a medium where I've been an outsider for the most part.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.