When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.