My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

The purpose of it all is love.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.