My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

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

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

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

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

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

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

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

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

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