The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.
Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.