In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.