If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

The mentality of a successful relationship: detached and dedicated.

I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.

Having fun while learning feels like playing a game.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.