Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are.

Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.

Live the best life in every moment.

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.