I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
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,… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody,… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“Yes, Baby...I've been drinkin'...I shouldn't come by I know...but I found myself in trouble, darlin'...and I have no place else to go. Honey I'm… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it! — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
