I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.