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I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.