I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.