Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.