Love is the reason you were born.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

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

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

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

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