Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I've been really lucky to have a lot of cool people and to be around a lot of cool celebrities that I've got to learn from.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

Money and religion are perfect alloy.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.