My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.

But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.