Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

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.

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

America and China need to understand each other.

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.