I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

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 try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.