I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

Im not interested in fad songs.

They're book addicts.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Motivation is a lotta crap.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

I felt a huge drive to make clothes that everybody could have because I felt ostracized by that world of beauty and fashion. I never thought I would have a part in it. Never in a million years.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.