My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
I was really shy as a kid.
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
