My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, 'If this van's rockin', I'm deleting emails.'

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.