For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.
I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.