Ryan Tedder Quotations

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.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

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

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

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

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

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

I grew up listening to English music.