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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.
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I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.
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I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
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I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.
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I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.
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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
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Married life is awesome.
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I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.
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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.
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One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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My dad is an egomaniac.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.