Writing For Other Artists Helped Me Figure

Songwriters, You Have To Work - You Have To Wait For Residuals. You Have To Pray That The Song's Going To Be A Hit. And Then A Year Later, You Might Get A Check.

I Love That I Can Talk To My Fans Through Twitter, To Cut Out The Middle Man. Because I've Done Interviews Where My Words Have Gotten Twisted, So It's Nice To Be Able To Have Things Coming Straight From Me.

I've Had Big Record Label Presidents Look Me In The Face And Say, 'your Music Sucks, You Don't Know Who You Are, Your Music Is All Over The Place, And We Don't Know How To Market This Stuff. Pick A Lane And Come Back To Us.'

I'm A Big Fan Of Songs Like Joe Cocker's 'you Are So Beautiful' And Eric Clapton's 'wonderful Tonight' - Songs That Go Straight To The Point.

I Felt Like I Didn't Have [any] Pizzazz, And A Lot Of Girls Say I'm Out Of This World, So I Was Like I Guess I'm From Mars.