Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Love is the reason you were born.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

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