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I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

I don't really write songs anymore.

I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.