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.

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.

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.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Donald Trump seems to prefer people he sees as being on his side.