A biography for Randy Newmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.”
“I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.”
“But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.”
“I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.”
“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.”
“Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.”
“What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.”