I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.

I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable