To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.