The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.