You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!