When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

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."

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

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

When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.