As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.

Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.