I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

Take that which God has given you and share it.