I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

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.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

My dog's a gentleman.