I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.
Randy NewmanI've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
Randy NewmanI've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
Randy NewmanWriters have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.
Randy Newman