One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.