Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.