When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

It's easier to runReplacing this pain with something numbIt's so much easier to goThan face all this pain here all alone.

Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.