Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.

The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

Strength is for service, not status

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.