I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

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 believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.

There is no limit of what you can or don't do! as the word itself gives you the strength to survive called friendship..

I always knew what I was doing.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

You may only get one chance at something...and that requires confidence in your ability.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.