I like to incorporate all different elements into my music.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty

You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.