Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.