I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.