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.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

My main goal is to tell a story.