Remember you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

You can't lose sight of what you did to get there

I think that if you listen to the same exact genre of music that you play, it is so easy to be influenced by it. There will be times where we are writing a song, and then realize that it songs like something we just heard on the radio. There was a while when we were writing, that I didn't listen to music because I didn't want to be influenced.