The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

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.

To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !!

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.