Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

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.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.