I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I am a huge sports fan.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

This is the complacency I have run into.

People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.