Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

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

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.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

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

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

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