I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.
I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals. I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album.
I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.
'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.
I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.
The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
