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

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.

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

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

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

I hate exercising self-control.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.