I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.

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.

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

The good is the enemy of the best.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.