Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.