We somehow managed to live through the trends without succumbing to them. When disco came in, we survived without writing a disco song.

The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

But I must say I am happiest when something hits and I've written it with Barry. After all these years, I am still amazed by his genius.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I had written this really depressing ending in which when everybody says you get over things, and I thought I would love again, but wrong again.