I try not to release songs that I’m not proud of, and even songs that I don’t connect with.

I’ve found that falling doesn’t always leave you fallen for.

I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they’re doing so.

There’s no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that’s when it has the best chance of being heard.

You’re gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that’s just the way it goes.

I think that’s the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you’ve got to learn from that experience.

You know, frankly, it’s like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months – that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it’s an honor and it’s something that makes the day that you’re living a lot more valuable.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn’t feel like I’m somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it’s not a sport.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There’s a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.