I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

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

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

Very often the music comes first.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.