I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

People give out compliments because it's polite.