Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

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

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.