There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

If it's something that I just can't get anywhere with, even if I think this could be a hit, I just drop it and it doesn't get developed.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

You don't know where you're going.

Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.