In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

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.

When it is late, everyone cares!

All sorts of darkness and evil are now hiding themselves under the umbrella of religion, Christianity, church etc.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

MEMO:M- MakeE- EveryM- MinuteO- OutstandingLet Every Second Count In Your Life!

Friendship is not just about having fun, it’s about supporting each other in time of weakness.

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.