I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

You are worthy of your wildest dreams.

More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one’s status in society.

Balance is of the essence, ' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"-Dr. Honma

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

My honor is my loyalty.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them