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If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

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 think with certain artists you want to hear their album... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.

My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.