I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.