I live to service you.

I’ve been things and I've seen places..

I'm not much of a jokester..

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling a….

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap..

I prefer true over happy now..

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once..

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech..

The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, ….

Always sing below your potential..

Experience by itself is not science..

We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go….

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music.….

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song.".

I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I….

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro education..

Live close, visit often..

If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's….

I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about ….