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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.