People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.