Ryan Tedder Quotes

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I grew up listening to English music.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've 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 that's the Hollywood car test.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

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.

I'm actually introverted and shy.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.