If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party - I love that girl.