- Always strive for originality, to find your own voice. Be authentic, be yourself, people feel it.
- Write songs to move people, not to make money. If you come at it from that honest place, you’re always going to do good work.
- Hit songs are created in the studio. You can have the most brilliant song in the world, but if you don’t have the right singer conveying the right emotion it won’t work.
- Never copy or imitate what you hear on radio. By the time your song is potentially cut and/or recorded, the fad/fashion has already changed and music is moving in another direction.
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