128 Quotes by Randy Newman

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.