Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

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.

If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Cancers of all types among women are increasing

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.