100 Quotes by Borns

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

I just love catchy melodies.

It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.' But when you're doing it every night on the road, it's pretty intense.

I look at performance clothes as setting the mood for the whole show.

I bought a Three Dog Night album when I was pretty young, and I remember listening to all those songs. That's just greatly crafted songwriting, and the songs have such great harmonies. I remember marveling over those and trying to figure them out on piano. That was my early education - figuring out records, older records, as a kid.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I'd be the drummer. I'm innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn't have any shows. We just jammed in our parents' basement.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.