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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.