She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

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.

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

I was born with music inside me