Quotes from Randy Newman

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

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.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

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.

People do not reject the gospel primarily because they're too thickheaded to get it. Unbelief grows out of other soils besides intellectual confusion. Instead, people reject the good news because they're enslaved to other kinds of news. They're in love with something unworthy of such devotion, and it won't let them go.

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 guilty..yes I'm guilty...and I'll be guilty for the rest of my life. How come I never do, what I'm supposed to do. Nothin' I try to do ever turns out right. You know how it is with me baby, I just can't stand myself...it takes a whole lotta medicine, darlin'...for me to pretend that I'm somebody else.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.