I had always held everything in before.

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.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

I was never afraid of failure

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Does love still exist if you can’t say it? If you can’t admit it?

Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

All things are known to the soul.