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

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

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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

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.

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