“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.”

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.

But yeah I’m very much a spontaneous guy and it’s sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.

I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing.

Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”

It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected.

No one expected the preacher’s daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

You aren’t what I expected. I wish you were. It’d be so much easier.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Sometimes the best breakthroughs are the ones that happen unexpectedly.⠀⁠

I always try to do the unexpected in a novel way.