A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

I'd love to come to New Zealand!! I've been to Australia a few times - I'm well aware it's not the same country. I've heard from people it's beautiful - great diving, music and no scary animals.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Without Christ there is no hope.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

Don't worry?! You sliced your hand open!