The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.