What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

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

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.

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.

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