For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.

I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.

I think every album serves as a step in your career.

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.

Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.