I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

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.

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

I would have kept you safe, ' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know.

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

My approach never changes from start to start.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.