I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.

As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.