I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

I always win.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.