Quotes About Adaptation

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

My brain knows how to learn musical theater dancing, but learning hip-hop? It was so hard for my body to understand how to move in that way.

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

As someone who's never been musically trained, I am sort of used to being in a position where I have to kind of do things on the fly because I wasn't trained as an actor, either, and I've very much learned on the job.

Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

I felt like for it to really turn into something, you have to jump in with both feet. And it always turns out a little different than you imagined it, but that's kind of the beauty of it, when you feel musically confident enough to just kind of follow where it goes.

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

What musicals need is a new me.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

I had a mustache for 10 years.

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.