“Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newswe...” — Thomas Wolfe Quote

“Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

“One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”

“Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”

“My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.”

“The biggest challenge was the whole learning curve of being solo artist. I've been in bands for so long that being a solo artist was completely new thing.”

“Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.”

“I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.”

“I like Taylor Swift a lot. She has really fun, catchy songs. It's so funny: I always say any guy that's gonna date her, just be careful, because if it doesn't work out, they know by now the next single is gonna be about them! I love how real she is. I really respect her a lot as an artist.”

“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”