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 . . .

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

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.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

Content dictates form and style.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.