Ever since I was a little boy, I would study composition. And it was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that influenced me the most. If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is killer, every one. So I said to myself, Why cant there be a pop album where every — People used to do an album where youd get one good song, and the rest were like B-sides, theyd call them album songs — and Id say to myself Why cant every one be like a hit song? Why cant every song be so great that people would want to buy it if you could release it as a single?. So I always tried to strive for that. That was the purpose for the next album.On musical influences

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