I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

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.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

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

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.