I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.

I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.