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

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.

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Since the universe is infinite, that inspires me with endless ideas.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.