I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep. . . counting my blessings.
Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me. . . We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.
They call me Seymour Butts, cause I get more ass than most.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.