“A man who wants to write a victory song is wise in all his ways.”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools”
“Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!”
“Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.”
“I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.”