“Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and...” — LP Quote

Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.

I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.

When I see someone great live, what I think is, 'I can't wait to hear the record.'

When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was a lot. Then, when I first started writing for the people, I wrote, like, 65 songs in a year for two years in a row.

I appreciate good work no matter where it's coming from.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

You have to ration your creativity over all your songs. You write a really cool pop song then you have to write a heavy song to balance out, then you need to think about singles.

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.