I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

Who might you be?” she demanded. “A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?

Am I missing an eyebrow?

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.