If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.
I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.
I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.