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You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.

I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.