For the most part, I'm extremely thankful for the life I have and what I get to do in the future.

I'm not really the most confident guy in the world, but I also don't care too much about what people think about me either. I just try to be honest in what I like and see who likes it.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

I know so many people that I wouldn't have ever met had I not have been travelling since I was fourteen.

My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.

Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.

That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

I take my faith seriously.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM.

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

I believe it's a good thing that people say, "Can we find a way to live together in peace?" And they did, for the most part.

Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.