Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.

Stories, ' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.