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A melody is not merely something you can hum.

If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.