Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
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.
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
Love is the reason you were born.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.