I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment -daniel grigori (fallen)

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.