Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.