I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.