Personal Life
Steinman was born in New York, New York. He graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1965 and then attended Amherst College. According to longtime manager David Sonenberg, Steinman had serious cardiac health problems around 2004, but has been in good health since.
Responding to an interviewer's asserting that his songs are tragic, Steinman says that he has "never been stomped on literally. Figuratively, I am stomped on every day ... anyway, that is the way I feel sometimes. I've never had my heart broken the way you are talking about. I've never been dumped... but probably because I don't allow myself to be dumped."
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