I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.