I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.
There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.
We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.
For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.
You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.
I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.
Love is my family. I would die for them.
The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.
Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.
I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"
I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"
I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.
I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.
I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.
Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.
I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.
My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.
To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
You just have to follow your own heart.
You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.
When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.
I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.
