I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.