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 just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.