The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, its there forever. – Ryan Tedder
I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and Ive talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and thats the Hollywood car test. – Ryan Tedder
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window. – Ryan Tedder
The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders