It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know.

As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

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

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.