I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.