With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.