Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

A painter without hands who wished to express in song the picture before his mind would, by means of this substitution of spheres, still reveal more about the essence of things than does the empirical world.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.