I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

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

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

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 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.

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

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.