Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.