I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

we are all half fool, half wise, there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

You don’t look for miracles, you don’t search for miracles, miracles is supposed to follow you.

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.