When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I write in the studio.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

The funny thing about Facebook and Twitter is, you can go on there and see what's going on in the world without watching the news. I get so much news off of social media. I think it's cool. It's changed everything, not just music. It's changed the world. It definitely is a good thing. I don't really know what I think of it yet more than that. I haven't really sorted that out for myself.