I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song..

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to ….

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots..

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audien….

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne..

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us..

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything..

But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10….

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited..

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre….

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971..

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the th….

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody ….

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape..

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would si….

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career..

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize..