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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.