Grab life by the balls and squeeze.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.