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I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind happy music because then it evens it out... I'm really happy, actually. Obviously I have my bad moments, but I always challenge myself to not put negativity out there because there's already enough.

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.