“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of pap...” — Ryan Tedder Quote

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

I grew up listening to English music.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

For an architect's son, I am remarkably unformed in my architectural tastes.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.