You've Got Your Entourage And People That

For The Last Few Years, It's Been So Chic For Everybody To Be Miserable. Like If You're In With The Cool Crowd, You Can't Be Happy.

I Never Sit Down To Write. When I'm Moved, I Do It. I Just Wait For It To Come. You Just Hear It. I Can't Really Describe Writing. It's In My Head. I Don't Think About The Styles. I Write Whatever Comes Out And I Use Whatever Kind Of Instrumentation Works For Those Songs...a Lot Of People Don't Listen To The Lyrics, Really. A Lot Of People Pretty Much Only Listen To The Chorus.

Are Things Getting Better With Each Generation? Yes. It's Quite Interesting To Be Living In These Times, For Me To Witness An African-american Being Elected President. It's Quite Extraordinary.

I Wanted To Make Something That Sounded Very Pure, Organic, And Personal. I Wanted To Make Music That Was Timeless.

My Mom And Dad Would Take Me All Over. One Night We'd Be At The Apollo Watching James Brown, And Then I'd Be At The Joffrey Ballet. It Was That Kind Of Scene.