We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.

We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.

When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.

I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.

Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.

Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.