Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

Forgive others often yourself never.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

I like strong opinions - I'll take that any day over someone who agrees with everything.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.