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

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.