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

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

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 have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

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.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.