I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

Live your dreams.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.