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.

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

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

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

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 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.