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.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.