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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll not only understand the business aspect, they'll also have a true passion and ear for how quality is represented musically.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.