“I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.”

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Don’t show the world how alone you’ve become.

Nothing compares to the emptiness we both share.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

For a dreamer, nights the only time of day.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

We’ll find our love in the sky.

House of Balloons’ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

They asked me why I don’t quit drinking, I told ’em I’m not a quitter.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

So you’re somebody now, but what’s somebody in a nobody town?

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

You can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothin’ to say.

I think I’m an old soul, That believes in the idea of true love and royalty, loves old songs, looks for real in the world full of pretence.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

Half my mind is sex and songs.