Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.