I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I grew up listening to English music.

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.