And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.