I listen to a lot of medieval music.

It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

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.

I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.