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

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

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

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.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.