I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul!

Is it wrong to protect your heart?”- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 130

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.