If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.