I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

Smile, the worst is yet to come.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.

Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness

...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Me-EHH-UF-ow

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.