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In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.