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" Crowds respond to anthemic choruses. "
Crowds
Respond
" Honest always sells. Always has, always will. "
Always
Will
Sells
" I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band. "
Doing
My Own
I Am
" If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced. "
Unique
Song
Look
" I grew up listening to English music. "
English
Listening
Music
" 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. "
Morning
City
Dirt
" I'm actually introverted and shy. "
Shy
Actually
Introverted
" I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place. "
Lady
Place
She
" I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head. "
Sucker
Head
Your
" I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical. "
Just
Guy
Me
" I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame. "
Fame
Magic
Not Interested
" I'm not interested in fad songs. "
Not Interested
Interested
Fad
" I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones. "
Lost
Laptops
Terribly
" I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook. "
Guitar
Hook
Think
" 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. "
Best
Success
Think
" 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. "
Sunset
Think
Drive
" I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars. "
Wish
Money
I Wish
" I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs. "
Out
Market
Two
" Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple. "
Think
Brain
Simple
" Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if. "
Know
How
Than
" The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music. "
Most
Band
Beatles
" The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant. "
Classic
Relevant
Songwriting
" The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. "
Forever
Music
Once
" When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs. "
Beyond
Absolutely
Debt
" When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work. "
You
People
Successful
" 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. "
You
Voice
Tea
" Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music. "
Music
People
Level
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