I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

She sought his eyes once again. Eyes so perfect a blue they rivaled the most gorgeous lapis lazuli stone.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Books are men of higher stature.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.