I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

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

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.