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

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

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

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

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.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.