I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

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.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

You can't write if you can't relate.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.