Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

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.

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.