Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

I just talked to a customer who said he knows that if he builds a conventional distribution center, he won't be able to staff it. The folks who are skilled and ready to work are already working.

I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.