I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

My hits are not hits.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.