My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.

Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.