Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I don't ban bloggers from my shows. I have a separate line: VIP seating for bloggers.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.