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

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

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

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.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.