No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.