The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.