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

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

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

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.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

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