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.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful 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.

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

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.

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

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