- Her catalog of more than 1,000 songs brings her about $20 million in royalties each year.
- She has written more than 90 Billboard top ten hits. 38 of those songs have reached #1.
- She writes her songs in a room of her publishing business that has not been cleaned in over 17 years because she is superstitious. She calls this room her "secret world." She didn't even clean this room after the big LA earthquake.
- If she comes up with a good song in a place where she can't record it, she calls her home and sings the song to her answering machine.
- A songwriter of many popular songs including "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith, "When I See You Smile" by Bad English, "Time, Love & Tenderness" by Michael Bolton, "Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton, "How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes and "Because You Loved Me" by Céline Dion.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- Holds the singular if dubious distinction of picking up Oscar and Razzie nominations for the same song two years in a row: in 1998 for the song "How Do I Live" from Con Air (1997) and in 1999 for the song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" from Armageddon (1998). She didn't win either award in either year.
- She is the first songwriter in Billboard history to have 7 songs on the Hot 100 simultaneously.
- Her songwriting hero is Irving Berlin who, like her, did not read sheet music.
- Diane Warren & Jennifer Hudson were nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Original Song category for their work on "I'll Fight" from RBG (2018) but lost to Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt & Benjamin Rice for "Shallow" from A Star Is Born (2018).
- She is the only female writer in history to be named ASCAP's Writer of the Year three times.
- Her song "Blue Eyes Blue" was recorded by Eric Clapton.
- Winner of the 2008 Ivor Novello Special International Award.
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