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

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

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

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

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.

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 grew up listening to English music.