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

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!

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

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 hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

my poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage.

New birth, new blessings.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.