I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass