Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.