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

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.

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.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

I know." He leaned back, looking into her eyes. "But I'm not going anywhere, Jenny. I'll fight to stay with you.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

Corporate greed controls political will.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.