It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

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.

To let one into your mind was to give him or her all your secrets.

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.

I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle.

I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.