This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.