I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

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.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

To know truly is to know by causes.

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.