"I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record."

“Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.”

Source : Song: Maybe That's Something, Album: The Globe Sessions, 1998

“The real gift of love is self disclosure.”

“Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.”

Source : Song: When the Sun Goes Down, Album: When The Sun Goes Down, 2004

“All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.”

“Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name”

“Concepts become forces when they resist one another”

Source : Johann Friedrich Herbart, Daniel N. Robinson (1977). “A Text-book in Psychology”, Univ Publications of Amer

“Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?”

“Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko.”