I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
Taylor Swift
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And... →
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or... →
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female... →
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
T-Pain
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
Tablo