Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.

I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.