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.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.