There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

It's a blessing to have the support that I do. The support from the people. To get all the love from them, is just amazing and it keeps me going day by day.

When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.