"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."

"To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy."

"I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?"

"My father's a character."

"I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks."

"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."

"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."