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.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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.

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.

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

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