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Whatever sounds best to the ear, to the whole team of people who are producing the song, is what works eventually.

A great song needs a great film and a great film needs great songs.

It always starts as journaling for me. I find if I try to write a song, it doesn't feel as sincere as if I just write down whatever is in my head and then come back to those writings later to see what might sound like a chorus.

Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still probably the first thing I play sitting down at a new piano. One of my favourite melodies of all time.

The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird or anything, but I listen to it a lot - it's always on my iPod!

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

When I put my first song out, I didn't put out any pictures. I just wanted people to hear my music.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'