I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
I am an artist. . . I am here to live out loud.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
I want every album and every year to be a period of growth - and exponential growth as to what I'm able to do the each time around. I hope that I can really take my music to a place where it's widely heard and I can be touring and playing shows to bigger audiences.
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life. "