Growing up, I was all about The Beatles and a lot of punk-pop stuff. From there I moved into classical music and started getting more into that as a classically-trained trumpet player. Hip-hop didn't come until much later. It was in college that I started developing a pretty deep love for it.

[on Fun. and their 2012 album, "Some Nights"] It was a real learning experience for all of us. We were all fired up, a huge time of growth, becoming more confident of who we are as a band, and also as individual songwriters. It was like, "Here is what I can do, here is what you can do - let's combine it all and make something better than any of us could do on our own".