I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

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.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

Love is the reason for it all.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.