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.

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

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.