My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

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.

Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

I lost my way for a long time.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

Nick! Wait!” – Kyrian ‘Wait, my gluteus maximus. Vampire was shy of a few quarts of blood if he thought Nick had any intention of not going Casper on him.’ – Nick

Iraq's always been very secular.