I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

It was not very hard to do a double album. Nobody thinks it's a good idea if you're an unknown singer-songwriter. But I just kind of feel like if I want something, I can get it. That's the good side of being American, or something, you know?

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. I like my music to be very musical.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?