I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Keep taking new paths to expand your horizon.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.