Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.

One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

You can't eat compliments.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.