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If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

I hate charts. I just despise 'em.

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.