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It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.