ABOUT YOU IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES" YESTERDAY.

IT WAS A BIG, BIG SPREAD ON THE COVER.

AND THIS PHOTO WAS ON THE THING, LOOKING MYSTERIOUS BUT MADE.

>> I UNDERSTAND SOMETHING HAPPENED THE DAY YOU TOOK THIS

PHOTO.

>> WE WERE WONDERING AROUND NEW YORK LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO TAKE

A PHOTO BECAUSE GROUNDHOG DAY IS ABOUT WINTER AND STUFF.

AND IT WAS FREEZING.

THEY SAID JUST SQUAT DOWN IN FRONT OF THOSE BABY PINE TREES

AND I SAID THAT CAN'T HURT, AS I QUAWT SQUATTED DOWN, SHOW ALL

THESE NEEDLES FROM THE WALL GOT DRAGGED INTO MY UNDERPANTS, I

WENT OH, A FEW LITTLE BABY PINE NEEDLES HAVE GONE INTO MY JOCKS.

AND SO I GOT A LOT OF PINE NEEDLES, HE ASSAYS I HAVE SHOT.

I'M TRYING TO WALK, IT FELT LIKE A WHOLE TREE HAD SOMEONE GOT

DOWN.

SO I'M WALKING AROUND GOING I HAVE PINE NEEDLING, OKAY, I NEED

TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO DEAL WITH THIS.

WELL, CRAWLING DOWN AND UP AND UNDER, AND MY-- THE PERENI,U M,

AND SO I HAVE STOPPED, HAVE I GONE TO THE 52nd STREET

HEADING BACK TO GROUNDHOG DAY THEATER BUT OUR THEATER IS

CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS T WAS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ARC CROSS THE

ROAD IS CATS SO I HAVE GONE IN, I SAID I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, IT

IS INTERVAL DURING THE MATINEE AND THE USHER IS WHAT, HI, I'M

PART OF THAT-- COULD I BORROW, COULD I JUST COME IN AND GO TO

YOUR LOO.

SO I GO GUY UP THERE FIESLY LET ME N THE REST ROOM, AND I'M IN,

I GO INTO A CUBIC EL AND I HAVE THIS SURREAL MOMENT.

I HAD TO GET EVERYTHING OFF, STANDING THERE WITH MY UNDERIES

IN MY HANDS PICKING A SEAMINGLY UNBELIEVABLE NUMBER OF PINE

NEEDLES, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE A MIGRATION OF LIKE A DIASPERA OF

PINE NEEDLES IN MY NETHER REGION.

I'M INSECURE, I USE PIG WORDS, PICKING PINE NEEDLES OUT OF

UNDERIES AS THE END OF THE FIRST ACT, PEMRY.

♪.

>> OH MY GOD, THIS IS-- THAT WAS THE FIRST SONG, I EVER TAUGHT

MYSELF BY EAR, I READ AND WRITE EVERYTHING BY-- I DON'T READ OR

WRITE.

SO I AM-- READ DOTS, YOU KNOW, THOSE DOT, THE BLACK DOTS.

SITTING THERE LISTENING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL, GRIZBELLA THAT SINGS

MEMORY.

>> IT IS.

>> FROM THE BEGINNING, NO, STOP.

AND I'M SITTING THERE LISTENING, THAT IS THE FIRST SONG I EVER

TAUGHT MYSELF BY EAR BECAUSE I WAS OBSESSED BY LLOYD WEBBER,

STAR LIGHT EXPRESS WAS MY MUSICAL WHEN I WAS TEN I SAW IT

IN LONDON.

THAT CIRCULARITY OF THIS MOMENT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY WAS I OBSESSED

WITH BY LLOYD WEBBER WHEN I WAS A KID AND SITTING THERE

LISTENING TO MEMORY PICKING NEEDLES OUT OF MY JOCKS, BUT

ALSO HI SINCE BECOME FRIENDS WITH LLOYD WEBBER BECAUSE I DID

JUDAS IN THE ARENA THING.

AND SO WHILE I WAS DOING JUDAS I WAS IN NEW YORK, IN BETWEEN

TOURS WRITING-- DURING MATILDA, CRAZY TONY SEASON, WHICH WE ARE

ABOUT TO HEAD INTO, I WAS STAYING IN LLOYD WEBBERS

APARTMENT.

>> James: I SAW YOU, YOU WERE BELOW.

>> YES.

>> AND IN THE TRUMP TOWER.

>> James: YES.

>> IN LLOYD WEBBER'S APARTMENT.

AND THERE THAT DANNY AND MATH YOU AND I STARTED CREATING

GROUND HOG DAY, SO I HAVE A PHOTO OF ALL THESE STICKY NOTES

ON THE PLATE GLASS WINDOW OF THE 28th STORY OF THE TRUMP

TOWER OVERLOOKING CENTRAL PARK WITH THE BEGINNINGS OF GROUNDHOG

DAY SITTING THERE IN A THEATRE ACROSS THE ROAD LISTENING TO

CATS WITH MY JUNK OUT ACROSS THE ROAD FROM WHERE MY MUSICAL IT

LIKE FATE.

>> James: A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT.

>> LIKE FATE HAD PUT NEEDLES IN MY JOCK.

>> James: JUST TO FEEL THAT.

>> AND I BELIEVE NOW, I BELIEVE IN A GOD.

>> James: I THINK IT IS THEN I BECAME A CHRISTIAN.