Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

always schedule your comeback.

I live in the paradise of my imagination.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.