A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.