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.

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.

it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.