“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.””

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.

Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next.

And I’m like, “I don’t know. That’s just the way I am.” So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, “You’re quiet, and that’s the way I love you.

It’s very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours

It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn’t do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes.

I really do like surprises.

If you’re feeling down and times are blue, Remember this and know its true.  Tomorrow you can always start anew. A new day to seize, positivity your virtue.

Isn’t this loneliness a strange poetry? you want everyone to read, but you are never willing to write it down.

The world has slowed down. Its okay if you do too.

She is an all encompassing enigma of beauty and madness don’t attempt to tie her down.

We lock away our secrets and push them deep down so they feel farther away but they will always be inside us, no matter how well we hide the key.

Don’t reorient yourself to fit in to an upside down world.

The only way to bring down her walls is to show her you love her enough to climb over them.

Deep down you always knew.