I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

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.

Life is fulfilling when you are being productive

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.