I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!