And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

I miss everything about you. Can't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

The only category I do badly in is my personality. And that's OK. Who cares? And you know what? You want to know something? I'm a better person than the people I'm running against. I see it.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

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.

I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.