“There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.”

“Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.-Carl Grimes”

“If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.”

“I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.”

“There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.”

“It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.”

“The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.”

“The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.”

“With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.”

“When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.”

“I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'”