If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Stop treating your feelings like they are worth so little. I'm your heart, you idiot. Stop treating me like I'm worth so little. Choose me over your brain for once... Please...

Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work

Well, I guess I picked wrong then. Jesse doesn't like girls.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.