Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

— Rupert Holmes

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

— Rupert Holmes

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us…

— Rupert Holmes

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

— Rupert Holmes

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought…

— Rupert Holmes

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with…

— Rupert Holmes

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the…

— Rupert Holmes

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may…

— 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…

— Rupert Holmes

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

— Rupert Holmes

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

— Rupert Holmes

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

— Rupert Holmes

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to…

— Rupert Holmes

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is…

— Rupert Holmes

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph…

— Rupert Holmes

“If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you…

— Rupert Holmes

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

— Rupert Holmes

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that…

— Rupert Holmes

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

— Rupert Holmes