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 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'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.

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

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

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

Vain until the bitter end.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.