I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.