Owl City’s Adam Young – HuffPost 2.22.12

Mike Ragogna: What advice would you have for new artists?

Adam Young: I would say I’ve never been incredible with advice. But to somebody making music on their own, my advice is to just make sure that whatever you’re creating is very much pure and very much heartfelt so at the end of the day, you would be just as happy if the song were to get finished. And if it goes to number one or if no one else in the world hears it, you feel just as proud either way because you created it. What the song is saying and what it means to you, I think that is the test. You’re not writing for the radio, the charts, or forBillboard, you’re just doing what you’re passionate about, and I think that’s the heart of it.