Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.