It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

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