I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

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.

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.

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 started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

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