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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.