Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I've been really lucky to have a lot of cool people and to be around a lot of cool celebrities that I've got to learn from.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

The truth is, the Devil's job is easy.

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.