Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Im not interested in fad songs.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.

I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.