If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

Forgiveness makes humanity to survive in the hearts of the people.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

We are all connected, and we are all One.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.