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I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.