All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

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

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.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.