If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.

The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.