I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.