I thank the Lord for the night time.

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.

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

Be grateful. You only have this one life and it will be as beautiful as you make it

She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone.

Returning is the movement of the Way.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.