Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

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.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.