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

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

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

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

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.

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

Love is the reason for it all.