Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.