Top 27 Quotes by Randy Newman

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

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Thank God for 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.

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

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.

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 were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

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.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.