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.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything.

Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.