Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.