For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing. And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?” And I’m like, “I don’t know. That’s just the way I am.” So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, “You’re quiet, and that’s the way I love you.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.