I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

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.