Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .