The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

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.

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

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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

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

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.