I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.