So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Only capitalists get photographers.

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.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.