When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.

I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.