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.

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

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

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.