I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.