Jack’s Mannequin’s Andrew McMahon – HuffPost 9.28.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Andrew McMahon: Practice a lot. I think there’s such a focus, these days, on home recording and on accessing digital media and all these things–which of course are, without question, hugely important. But to any artist, I would say focus on your songs. Focus on making your band sound good live. Focus on saying something honestly and creating something striking and original. To some extent, that other stuff, people get sort of obsessed with early and end up focusing on the wrong places. Those things will fall into place if you can do the other stuff.