If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.
Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
