People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

That night, in the dark, dressed to kill, I lost my life—and became twenty forever.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.