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I want every song on it to be a hit.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

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

I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.

We always make music and continue to make hits.

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.

I want to have hit records, but I'm not searching to say, 'All right, I need this to be in the club. I need this, that.' I'm just making quality music.

Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

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

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.