In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that I still love that came out in the 80s or 70s.

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.

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

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.

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.