After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.