Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.