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.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

Music is structure out of Chaos