I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.