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.

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.

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.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Nothing makes you feel more like a man than holding and comforting a woman in your arms.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.