I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

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.

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.

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.

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