I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

A leader should care way more about HOW people are doing rather than HOW they are doing their work.

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.