I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

