If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.