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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.