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
Id love to be an artist thats multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldnt that be cool if I was like, Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song. I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows? – Anne Hathaway
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen