New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.