I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)