One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.