You have to recognize those writers who are artists in the same sense as the musicians. Catching colds and missing trains. Man, I wish I could say something that clever. Johnny Mercer was a wonderful lyric writer. You have to appreciate those. And then you get into the other thing where the lyricist says, It's not the composer, it's what the lyricist did that's important. Come on. When I find a song that is equal parts of both, that's a damn good song, and that'll be one of the songs I use all the time.

As quoted in "Meet Clare Fischer"