"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."

"People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them."

"I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks."

"Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain."

"Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been."

"I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily."

"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."

"I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment."

"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night."

"I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen."

"I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am."

"I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep."

"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

"If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now."