I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

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.

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.

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.

The light within you is divine.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?