So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.