Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.