I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

How simpler our lives would be if we could stay the same! We are here on the planet to learn, grow, and evolve.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.