When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.