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Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.