I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.

I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.