I don't like to think about stuff that's boring.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

People by and large will relate to the image you project.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.

I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.