I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

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

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