“When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.”

I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.

The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.

I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.

I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.

What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Family is at the heart of everything I do.

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.