Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

Write the book you want to read

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.