There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.