Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

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

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

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.