When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

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.

You dare travel on sacred road, although you may not know the end.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Few men can afford to be angry.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.