Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.

Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.

Passion is never pathetic.

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.

Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

What the hell did we do to deserve this?