Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

With a well-organized life, you have a higher chance of success and excellence in your area of calling and whatever you find yourself doing.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.