“I’m scared to death that I’ll never be afraid”

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

I built you a sandcastle because you’re a princess, but I tore it down because I’m a loser.

I’ve definitely had a few moments in my life where I’ve seen somebody and it’s blown me away at first sight

But it’s a blast and I wouldn’t trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.

In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

Thankfully, I’ve been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I’m very grateful to be able to control what I can.

It’s a very happy productive place.

Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

So for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.

You work so hard at something to make sure that it’s very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one.

Unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale.

For me, it’s always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere – and it’s kind of like a need of mine.

I’m so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it’s pretty mesmerizing.

The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.