There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

I'd love to come to New Zealand!! I've been to Australia a few times - I'm well aware it's not the same country. I've heard from people it's beautiful - great diving, music and no scary animals.

The first draft of anything is shit.

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?