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

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.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

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.

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.

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

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.