My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.