I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Love is the reason for it all.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

Think of you! I do not think of you

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.