I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.