Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive
I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.
The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.
I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
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.