Ryan tedder

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

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

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I grew up listening to English music.

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly...

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

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

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