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.

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.

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

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

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

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.