"I grew up working class in Atlanta."
"Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations."
"The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music."
"I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed."
"I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do."
"I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it."
"For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing."
"Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do."
"I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me."
"I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music."
"Hard work always pays off, whatever you do."
"Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once."
"Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo."
"'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while."
"I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs."
"Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor."
"Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever."
"It is a little weird seeing photographs from parties where you didn't even know a photographer was there."
"I literally have a song about how bored I was and it's actually a really cool song that's interesting because I created something out of nothing."
"There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff."
"As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt."
"You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day."
"I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video."
"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it."
"I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger."
