If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

Two years gives you enough time to grow and to change, and to, you know, change your priorities. Change where you live, change your hair, change what you believe in, change who you hang out with, what’s influencing you, what’s inspiring you. And in the process of all of those changes in the last two years, my music changed.