“Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.”

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I enjoy singing music with my audience.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Never run back to what broke you.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I’ve been thinking about forever.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Because sometimes the value lasts only as long as the distance does.

Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don’t have face-to-face time, it’s just different.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.