I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

I'm not tired. I'm just checking my eyelids for holes. It could take a while

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.