To me, I love spring because it's like the season of wild salads.

Of course, this time of year, you get a warm day and you don't even have to open your eyes to know that spring's happening.

I don't know many people who write songs who haven't been touched by him in some way.

When the males start coming into sexual activity, then they'll start singing, instead of their usual chip-and-call notes.

It is just the sweetest story. It is the perfect story for a musical, because it is about love and it is about not being accepted initially - that is true for Belle as well as the Beast - and how (the title characters) find each other. It is a heroic story, but not overblown. I just love it. People might be afraid this is just for children, and it is not. Proof of that are the $100 tickets (when it ran on Broadway) in New York.

My life's a wreck, and I love it.