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

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

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

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

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.