Songwritng is what I do.

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.

But Jack doesn'

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

To advise is not to compel.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.