I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

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.

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

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.

Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

I really learned it all from mothers.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

You've got one go in life, so make the most of it.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!