All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

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 accomplish the best you can, first aim for the best you can't.

It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave one’s mark on it.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.