I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.