As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

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.

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.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.