Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.

Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.

I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.