It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

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.

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

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.