I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.

What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.

If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me To

Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.

The soul evolves as a person addresses the chaos, vagaries, and perplexities of enduring an earthly life. We each ultimately become our own version of an ideal self by stage-managing who we become.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.