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.

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.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

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

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.

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.