You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

If at first you don't succeed, try to eat a big lunch and take a nap...er wait, no... #badadvice

I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Every girl need to party the U.S.A thats what being a girl is all about.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.