Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.