Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

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.

Convert your time into useful assets

A mothers Love is as deep and powerful as any ocean, in the depths of it forgiveness forever is found for her wandering child.

Healing is too big a topic for any one person to know it all.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

My best inorganic friend is science!

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

[The Democrats] can't stop [Donald] Trump. They are in the exact position that the Republicans were in in 2009 and 2010 with [Barack] Obama.