I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.