Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

It's important to stay creative.

I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.