There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.

Music and weed go well together, obviously.

I make music. It's kind of what I've always done.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do.

I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.

A song is a meaningful thing.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.

Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.'

I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.