 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. |
| Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. |
| If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs. |
| No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program. |
| Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. |
| Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. |
| There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. |
| The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying. |
| I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people. |
| Songs are life in 80 words or less. |
| I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. |
| When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. |
| I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first. |
| Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. |
| I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. |
| Songwritng is what I do. |
| It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier. |
| Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. |
| I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part. |
| I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. |
