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.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

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

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

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'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.

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