My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

I've never had a very great public life.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

A pear is a failed apple.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.