No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.