Music reminds us that the universe loves us

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.