I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

you are what you wear

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!