Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

I adore pretty things & witty words.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.