But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning.

I know that I sound like the joker, but the joker is a great character.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.