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

There is a great correlation between music and images.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.