I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always perfect. To write a good song, things can't be perfect.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

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