The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

You’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country, I have a BIG problem with you.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.