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

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

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.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

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.