Art is craft, not inspiration.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.