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

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

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

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.