If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

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.

Trial and error open the portal to perfection.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.