I’m sort of like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.

Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don’t understand why.

We probably didn’t even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we’ve been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive...

It got to the point where I was afraid that I would have to wake up the following morning and think about what I was going to do next. To suddenly realize that everything was...