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I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.