I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.