"Mix tapes are tricky in the way that all presents are tricky—you have to balance your own taste with the taste of the recipient, even if that person’s taste is terrible. You have to hide the medicine in the applesauce."
"I was playing Weezer songs when I was 13 at parties, so now I can die happy … I pulled out a chorus that I’d been carrying around for a couple years from my pocket … I thought there was a reason why I didn’t use it, but I knew, after hearing him doing the song, I dropped to my knees and exalted to the sky … I brought out the chorus, I started writing the verse, he started writing lyrics, and you can tell his hand is in the lyrics … I just kept my head down, I was nervous as shit. I was shaking in my boots, literally. I just kept my head down and hummed until he said ‘That’s cool.’"