I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

He can run, but he can't hide.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.