Dorothy Fields

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Love is the reason you were born.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.