My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.