You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.