I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

I think, Trump ran a very nostalgic campaign. There's an idea of like, to put it bluntly: What if it was like before all our kids got strung out on drugs? You know, what if it was like that? Make America like that.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.