I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

Stories You Can Feel!

I'm home'', he said against her skin, and she realized it was the truth.''I'm home, too''.

My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.