I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Forget 'bout your past and forget 'bout your resources, make you eligible to any of your desire.

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.