We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in.
Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.
Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.
I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue.
If you want to be famous, you can.
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.
I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.
One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.
To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.
Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?'
It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.
I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.
