Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.