Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.