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

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

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.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.