The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

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.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods.

Happiness comes to you when it comes from you.

Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.