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

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

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.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

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.

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