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

Love is the reason for it all.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

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.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.