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You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.