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.

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 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 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.

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

Maintain focus on what God called you to do.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.