I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.

Success is always available to anyone who is willing to pay its affordable price. Stop making excuses.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

There are those who see a problem and there are those who will not give up until they find a solution - finding a solution is what the Full Stop Foundation is about