Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

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.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

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

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.