Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.