Mark Ronson Talks Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, & His New Girlfriend

Mark Ronson takes a seat on the cover of WSJ. Magazine‘s March Men’s Style Issue, on newsstands today!

Here’s what the 43-year-old musician had to share with the mag:

On his relationship with his new girlfriend, which he confirmed while putting on a Supreme varsity jacket that belongs to her: “Yeah, I am in a relationship. It’s good. I’m dating a nice girl.”

On co-writing “Shallow” with Lady Gaga while producing her album Joanne: “We were all going through relationship s–t.” (Gaga had just ended things with her then-fiance, Taylor Kinney, and Mark’s marriage with Josephine de La Baume was foundering.) “Everybody was willing to bring their troubles to that song. [The process was] like therapy, even though there’s so much hurt in this song.”

On his collaboration with Miley Cyrus, “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” which took four years to make happen: “[Miley was like a] a whirling dervish [in the recording studio]. I knew the minute she sang it, this is gonna be pretty special.”

Miley on working with Mark: “Seeing the way that he works, I was immediately addicted to the process. He’s such a listener that you instantly feel he’s present. Then, he’d come back the next day with music, this sonic dream that somehow says all that you spit at him.”

For more from Mark, visit WSJ.com.