Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.