If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

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.

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

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

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.