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"When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any."
"Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color."
"As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, 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."
"Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win."
"I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, 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."
"Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you."
"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. 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."
"He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely."
"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. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time."
"I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser."
"If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!"
"A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident."
"Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back"
"It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting."
"I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing."
"I live alone in a house, 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. It's a very happy productive place."
"I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody."
"It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal."
"I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid"