You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

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.

In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

The American public is a very specialized public.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Liberty trains for liberty.