Blue Moon

“But there are moments, I swear to God, there are moments in my work when I have made something bigger than myself. The words were bigger than the music, bigger than the characters who sang them, and they approached, for maybe one-half second, something immortal. Excuse my limitless self-regard, but they did, and if nobody else is going to say it, then I'm going to. I have written a handful of words that are going to cheat death.”