Quotes

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

I'm not fashionable.

I have this really big face.

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

All my songs are where I am.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

I'm not one for writing names on my wrist when I play. Actually, I internalise a lot. But my brother and I are so connected... everything I do is for him.

Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.

I have an older brother who has autism - James.

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

I think a lot of guys have their favorite shirt that they wear for years and years.

Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.

Copyright law is too confusing.

First love is such a big thing growing up.