You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.