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.

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.

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.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.