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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.
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I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.
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It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.
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I don't really think in terms of goals.
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I am so blessed and lucky.
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To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.
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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.
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We always need little reminders that it's gonna be all good.
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I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.
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I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.
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'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.
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I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.
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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.
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You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.
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Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
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My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
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If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'
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When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.
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Album 1 is proving that you're worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn't a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I've ever done.
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I've never cheated on my wife, ever. But to say that it doesn't exist or it doesn't happen and saying you never deal with it would be lying.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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I love me some 'Family Guy.'