In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.