I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.