I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.