The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.