I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I expend a great deal of effort and spend an enormous amount of time on my books. And I've been writing now for 35 years.

I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.