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I really like melodies.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

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

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.