Life's too short to stay where we are.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.