It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:Yes.Yes.No.One time in high school.Three times in my twenties.Rocks no salt.Yes.Four.Never. And how dare you!I will take no further questions.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.