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!

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.

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.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

We are never content with our lot.

If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.