"Often I would have a start, two or four lines. [Mike Stoller] would sit at the piano and start to jam, just playing, fooling around, and I'd throw out a line. He would accommodate the line--metrically, rhythmically."

(Jerry Leiber, all'anagrafe Jerome Leiber, paroliere spesso in coppia col musicista Mike Stoller; Baltimora, 25 aprile 1933 – Los Angeles, 22 agosto 2011)