I Think That It's Fear. The Musicians

Whenever You Experiment With Something, It's Very Easy To Take The Emotion Out Of It. And Going Back And Forth Between Wanting To Be Respected Artistically And Wanting To Move People Is Its Own Challenge.

The Key Is, How Do You Feel With The One Asshole? They Cannot Be Talked To. That's Why They Are Assholes.

You’re Supposed To Expand Your Mind To Fit The Art, You’re Not Supposed To Chop The Art Down To Fit Your Mind.

A Big Part Of Making An Album Is That You Want To Have Enough Material - You Want To Have Enough Stuff For People To Hear And Know That It Represents You. So It Does Sometimes Turn Into A Situation Where You're Saying To The Person You're Working With, "well, What Do You Want?" But Then There Are Other Times When I Work With People And They'll Turn To Me And Say, "how Do You Want To Do This?" And That's Actually When I Work Best.

We Have To Have A Version Of Our Own Story That We Keep Telling Ourselves That Allows Us To Get Up In The Morning. This Version Of Yourself Is What You Sell To Yourself. I Think It Necessarily Includes ... Not Looking At Certain Things. Everybody's Got Some Blind Spot.