"I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself."

"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."

"We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters."

"I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal."

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."

"Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all."

"All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine."

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."