It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.