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

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.

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.

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.

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

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.