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

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.

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.

Meditate,  Clear,  Calm,  Center,  Ground, Empty your mind, Stillness. Be receptive to a new approach. Believe in the possibilities of new opportunities.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.