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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.