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" Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses. "

Getting Married

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" I think my faith is a huge part of my music. But for me, it didn't make sense to be in any specific market. I write songs for a lot of different kinds of people. "

" I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it. "

" I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me. "

" I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from. "

" Golf was big in my family. "

" I love Michigan. "

" I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music. "

" I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records. "

" There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place. "

" It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music. "

" When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment. "

" Paul Simon is the king! "

" I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile. "

" Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them. "

" Money definitely does not equal success in recording. "

" When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major. "

" It's silly to throw things out or label things. You know, is U2 a Christian band, or was Johnny Cash a Christian country singer? I don't know, but they're pretty open about their faith. "

" Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.' I never turned my back on that material. On some albums, you change - that's all. The trick is to follow your heart and do what feels right. "

Black And White

" I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd. "

" Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car. "

" I love Bruce Springsteen's writing, but I grew up on '90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest. "

" Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room. "

" Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am. "

" I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency. "

" I'm a '90s music kid. "

" You write these songs which are really dear to you about your family or friends, loved ones, and then you get this call, and they say, 'It's perfect for two vampires making out in the back of a car.' It's some random TV show, and so I say, 'Oh, yeah, perfect - that's what I meant it for.' "

" When 'Young Love' came out, I was really excited, and it has been really special. "

" There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world. "

" When we tour, there's always this unique quality to every town you visit... Touring, you get a sense of a collective identity for different cities. That's one of the things I love about my job. "

" I was an English major, and I always wrote poems. "