My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.