Reality' is a word with many meanings.
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.
With writing, we have second chances.
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning