The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, its there forever. – 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
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
Well, its a little harder in New York. Its not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who cant cross the street, theyre not going to take it well. Southern California? Theyll wait. Its cool man. In New York, theyre like, Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work. – Matthew Rhys