Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.

I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.