“You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop,...” — Chris Martin Quote

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

Holzhauer Haters' is pretty catchy, but I have not encountered too many haters. I'm sure they are out there, but I don't spend my free time looking up every person's opinion of James Holzhauer.

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.