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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.