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

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 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.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

There is a child in all of us.