I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.