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As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.