I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

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 died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.