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'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.

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.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a great melody and that's important.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

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

If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Nobody had any idea that 'If You Could Read My Mind' would become a hit single.

'Dip it Low' is pretty highly requested for me. I get that a lot.

When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'

With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are all kind of different, the chorus was there along with 'The Love Shack' - I think that really made it a hit. Once we heard it in the studio, we played it for R.E.M., and they were like, 'Yes this is a hit.'

You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don't have the songs, it doesn't close the deal.

There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.

I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.