Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.