OneRepublic chat to I Like Music

RYAN: Thank you, I also did another song on her record called Take A Bow, which I hope and think might be the second single, which I like as much as Bleeding Love and she was wonderful to work with.

ILM: Yeah, she's such a lovely girl.

RYAN: Absolutely.

ILM: You're a Grammy nominated writer & have written & produced tracks with/for various other artists, including Natasha Bedingfield, Jennifer Lopez, Lil' Jon, Paul Oakenfold, t.A.T.u., Bubba Sparxxx, Tupac and Timbaland. How did you get into songwriting and production with such high profile people?

RYAN: Well the high profile thing has only been really in the past year, because I had to work my way up the pecking order, the ladder of credibility. I started with brand new artists who barely had record deals to medium artists and you've got to have hits at some point and then that gets you up to the real A-list artists.

I started writing and producing just out of necessity. I was flat broke about five years ago. I promised myself that I wouldn't do any jobs that weren't music related. So I started hustling songs I started OneRepublic about five years ago too, so at night I would work on OneRepublic, booking shows and writing and rehearsing and during the day I'd work on hustling songs for other artists, for anybody and everybody, anything to generate an income, because I was living in poverty at that point. So it started out of necessity. I didn't ever plan on being a producer or songwriter per se, I planned on being an artist. But if we had a show on a Thursday night, I still had seven hours left during the day to do something else, so I started filling my days with songwriting. And one thing led to another and now it's all happening at the same time.
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