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.

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

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.

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.

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

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