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.

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.

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

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

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

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.

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.