It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

I don't need to get paid. I just wanna open. I just wanna get in front of new people.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.

I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit.

I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.

I think the biggest thing is that I have fun with the fans on Twitter and Instagram and at the show. It's a fun time to be able to communicate with all the different types of social media stuff.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

How can I lose to such an idiot?

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.