When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

I've been aware of my gay fans since album one. There has been such great support from that community and it has gone both ways.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.