A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / 花の色は うつりにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる ながめせし間に

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

The wise man never loses his temper.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble." "Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.