Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

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.

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

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

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.

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