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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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