All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Oh I don't know, ' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

I just don't like travelling very much.

We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.