When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

how much does a thought weigh?

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.