I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

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

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?