Hold your head high heavy heart.

I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.