Quotes from Ryan Tedder

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

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

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

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