“Port Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.””

It’s funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind.

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.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it’s not what it is for me.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

He has committed everything he’s had to it. If in fact he believes that every human life was sacred, I knew that if he had his conscious awakened

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don’t know‚ but when I’m not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I’m not playing.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.

It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial.