I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.