I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.