I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.

hat's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto.

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.

Confidence, just like success, is self made.

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

I have no need for that hypothesis.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.