I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

In the UK, tons of records are now sold in grocery stores, because there are no record stores - it's iTunes or the grocery store. And almost every band that had an impact on me was on a major label. There's value in people actually hearing things, as well.