I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.

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.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.