When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

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.

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.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Death is better than slavery.

The best sentence? The shortest.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

Everything is energy. Thought is energy and thoughts are real things.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.