When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

I'm not really the most confident guy in the world, but I also don't care too much about what people think about me either. I just try to be honest in what I like and see who likes it.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.

For the most part, I'm extremely thankful for the life I have and what I get to do in the future.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

I know so many people that I wouldn't have ever met had I not have been travelling since I was fourteen.

My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.

Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.

That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

I take my faith seriously.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.