I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.