New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she’s not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in that way she got it right. I would say an actress like Lauren Bacall also got it right. She never let anyone persuade her to be something she wasn't. She was strong. She always looked like she knew what she was doing.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!