I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

I'd love to come to New Zealand!! I've been to Australia a few times - I'm well aware it's not the same country. I've heard from people it's beautiful - great diving, music and no scary animals.

Execution is something, but timing is everything.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Breathing is the master key of life.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

I did my time in the jail of your arms