I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

Im not interested in fad songs.

sad is the poem i will never write

...environment scarcely recognises a political frontier.

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.