I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.