“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”

“I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.”

“There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”

“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.”

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

“Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”

“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.”

“Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.”

“It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.”

“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”