Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

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.

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.