Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.
I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.
No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they don't feel like they've done it yet. It pushes you to evolve.
The end game is always a hit song.
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.
