A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.