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

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.

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

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

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