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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

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For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude...

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

I was really shy as a kid.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and...

I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing...

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as...

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

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