I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

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 happens at the level of events not words.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.