I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn.

When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.