I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.