Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

As a kid I had gone to New York a handful of times with my family. I definitely think it planted a seed in me.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the radio?'

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I sent a girl a picture of my d - k. I don't know what it is with females. But I'm not too good with that s - t.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

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