I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. – David Friedman
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that’s fine. – David Friedman
Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don’t dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. – David Friedman
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. – David Friedman
As a person, I’m not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. – David Friedman
I’m not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That’s going to take another 100 performances. – David Friedman
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It’s not like I’m performing; I’m just singing stuff that I really believe. – David Friedman
I don’t like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I’m an obsessed mixer and I can’t leave it alone. – David Friedman
I’ve written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. – David Friedman
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman
I’ve been doing a lot of studying singing, and I’m thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time. – David Friedman
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There’s something that has always been difficult about that for me. – David Friedman
I’m trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference. – David Friedman
I’ve been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. – David Friedman
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D’s, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! – David Friedman
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. – David Friedman
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted. – David Friedman
