Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

If you love animals, don't eat them.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

My father's a character.