Zitat des Tages von Ryan Tedder:
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.
I grew up listening to English music.
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
I'm not interested in fad songs.
I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.
Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.