My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day..

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish..

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time t….

In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge….

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and b….

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about..

I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won fro….

I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The b….

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego an….

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave th….

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to….

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent..

I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's….

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is real….

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart..

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft..

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs..

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come..

When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and eve….

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart.

Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell.