Cynthia Weil

“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”

“Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.”

“Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.”

“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.”

“Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.”

“I can't seem to write young enough anymore.”

“It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.”

“There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.”

“We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.”

“We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.”

“I wanted to write for Broadway.”

“We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.”

“Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.”

“That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.”

“You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.”

“The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.”

“My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.”

“But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.”

“That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.”

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