The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to someb….

I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feel….

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel lik….

It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieve….

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie..

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore..

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive..

I know my lies are always wishes..

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else..

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. Th….

It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing about. Music is the only way we ….

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you do….

To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t kn….

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at so….

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's….

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having mor….

For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point..

There's probably not any kind of music that means more to me than gospel and soul. I heard somebody say that soul music is being proud of where you'r….

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them..

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator..

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself..