Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

There is a great correlation between music and images.