The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

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.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

If you are doing what you love to do and on the way helping the humanity, then you are a success.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

You are a pure fresh flower in the garden of my heart.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.