I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.

I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.

It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

My proudest moment was when I was in high school, some jackass tried to give me a wedgy. I came prepared, I went commando. It tickled.