It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.
I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
And no, having the hits is just more work.
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
You just write about things that happen.
They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose.
Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.