It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.