I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

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.

I know God love me, because my enemies don’t triumph over me.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.