It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.

Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?I can't tell.The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!