Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.