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When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

Pop music has progressed.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.