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.

You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

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.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.