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

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

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

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

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

Love is the reason for it all.