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To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.