Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.