No more free steps to heaven.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.