People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

We only feel joy when we love our precious life.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise