I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.