Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

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

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

Writing is a form of mischief.

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.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.