You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

Talent is only a starting point.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.