Diane Warren

“Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.”

“Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.”

“When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.”

“I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.”

“A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.”

“I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'”

“I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.”

“What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.”

“I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.”

“I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.”

“When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.”

“Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.”

“I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.”

“Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.”

“I would never want to get married.”

“I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.”

“I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.”

“What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.”

“I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.”

“I was born loving music. It was always my friend.”