I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

I played classical as a kid.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.