I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

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.

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

Poetry is a mug's game.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

The pleasure was all yours.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.