Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.