You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

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.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.