#ryantedderedit

“Big like an ocean, jealous of the fish it feeds - your devotion, swimming inside of me.”

At 15 I wrote my first song. And then I discovered Diane Warren, and David Foster, and a handful of the biggest producers and songwriters of the 90s, and I found out that there were these people that wrote all these songs, so the same person wrote ten number ones, I couldn’t believe it. So then I started studying their songs in my spare time. I would literally learn them on piano, and then I would change the lyrics, or I would take the chords and I’d change the melody. I’d manipulate the songs until it was something that I had written, and I didn’t know it at the time but I was kind of giving myself a masterclass in songwriting.

“I’m lucky that I get to work with the artists I do. I was involved in the Adele’s latest project off and on for two years. I’ve been involved with U2, and I did some stuff with The Killers in the last six months, and Grace Mitchell, this new artist from Portland, Oregon, is kind of blowing my mind right now. I have a conversation going with The Chainsmokers about collaborating, so all these songs that I’ve done with these artists, they play a role. I did some stuff with Ed Sheeran for his next album that plays a role.” - Ryan Tedder