I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

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.

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.