“Steve is wonderful to collaborate with and he thinks I am, because I say, 'Go ahead, raid the dialogue.' For example, the first line of Mr. Goldstone — 'Have an egg roll, Mr. Goldstone — was taken from the dialogue. But he means really more than that. He is one of the few, too few, lyricists, who knows that each character speaks differently and sings differently. They have a different diction. So he waited, in the case of Gypsy, so I could write the characters. He would see how they would speak. That affected what lyrics he wrote for them.”