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

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

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 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.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.