We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.