Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

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.

Neither pathway is correct.

They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.

I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.