I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Deal-making goes on with any job.