It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

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.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

My heart's pounding like I'm watching Oprah's farewell season.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.