Rupert holmes

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been...

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

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.

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and...

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've...

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.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for...