When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

You could be your own spotlight!

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.