"My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."

"I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music."

"All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years."

"It is a unyielding truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."