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Nationality: American
Birthday: October 28, 1972

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There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

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Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

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I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

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Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

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When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

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'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

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In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

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I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song.

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I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

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I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

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The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

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All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

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I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

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