As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.