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

Love is the reason you were born.

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.

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

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.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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