Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio….

I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just han….

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about thi….

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church..

When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formatio….

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look a….

Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to….

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meeti….

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find….

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language..

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able ….

Hey there's not a cloud in the sky It's as blue as your goodbye And I thought that it would rain On a day like today Hey there's not a cloud in s….

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty..

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy..

It was his own grief turned magically to song..

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be..

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether….

We have access to more resources in general, and they are not going to force a situation on us, whether its the producer, or the cover, or what songs….

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful..

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself..