I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

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

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.

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.