I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

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 a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well.

You only live once. Maybe twice.

I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Get face time with the customers.

Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

No person is too hardened.