Today we younger than we ever gonna be!
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don’t care so much that I won’t do whatever the hell I want. It’s just one of those things.
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.’
The piano is not firewood – yet.
Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood.
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it’s all a story.
When you’re playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that’s crude and not as good.
So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
I think to me, all songs are stories.
Even if you’re an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you’re still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody’s who’s writing from their direct ‘I’ or ‘me.’ I’m just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren’t on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.
You are my sweetest downfall.
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that’s so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
And people are just people, They shouldn’t make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It’s coming and it’s going.