Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

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.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.