Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

In L.A., it's so sunny out all the time that even though I'm working all day I have this illusion that I'm on some kind of vacation. New York is so condensed and exciting but you stay there too long and all that turns into anxiety a little bit. It's nice to escape here and there.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.