Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.