Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

A diamond's happy ending is on a crown, but its beauty was formed in dirt.

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.