Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.

I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.

You should never leave something with a feeling of defeat.

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

You always nag the one you love

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.