I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.
I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.
If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.
The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.
Never give up when you really believe in something... just do you ...............
I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.
