Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

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.

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.

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

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.