If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.

That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.