I'm going to do things when they are right for me..

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They do….

I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good at creating some….

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her..

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other ….

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians ….

What you see is so much less than what you get..

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing..

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a ….

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul..

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men..

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time..

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public..

I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better a….

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time….

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time..

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to g….

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth..

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and….