There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

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.

If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works