I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.

I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question.

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.