Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

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

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.