Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.