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

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.

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.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

I will always dance in the street.

What i value more than all things, good humor.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.