[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, i….

This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh A….

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kin….

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable t….

Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it….

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible..

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water.

The piano is not firewood -- yet..

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear..

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind.

We're living in a den of thieves.

Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them..

No one laughs at God in a hospital..

A man destined to hang can never drown.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists..

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, ….

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating.

I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a pian….

Never, never mind your bleeding heart..

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker..

You are my sweetest downfall..