Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

Basically, markets don't like uncertainty.

It takes a pillage.

Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles.

He is poor who does not feel content.

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.