I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned..

She's got a smile that heals me..

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old..

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience..

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money..

I'm in a New York state of mind.

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame..

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a differe….

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksvill….

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates..

I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off..

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can….

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you do….

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions..

All she wanted was sax..

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They w….

Only the good die young..

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore..

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes..

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal..