I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
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

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
David Friedman

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
David Friedman

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
David Friedman

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
David Friedman

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
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

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

When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
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