Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

Friends were hundred, Kites were none, This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred, Friends are none, Sitting under the sun.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.