I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

I didn't realize I could love her more than I already had, but it seems the more we evolve, the more I can't see my life without her.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I play for the United States of America!

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.