When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.