Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I've been really lucky to have a lot of cool people and to be around a lot of cool celebrities that I've got to learn from.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.