It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

There is also something exciting about the risk. Somewhere in me is a sadist that likes pain, I guess.

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.