Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.