“I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I’d love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn’t me, it wasn’t my name.”

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it’s sharing your creativity with people. There’s no ambition to be famous. I couldn’t care less about that.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I think all my videos suck.

Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience…When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I don’t like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

My father’s a character.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I’ve never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

When your world has shattered, ain’t nothing else matters. It ain’t over, it’s only love and that’s all.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you’ll search no more.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

I’m amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it’s changed. You go away for a month and there’s three more skyscrapers.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Working with Yachty was so fun! I love that man so much! He’s one of my favorite artists, but he’s also my favorite person. He’s so bubbly! He’s just so funny.