staring at the blank page before you. Open up the dirty window, let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find. Reaching for something in the distance. And you got to talk about the hills. I mean, it's amazing, because that song first was like a radio hit. And then MTV approached me because I had this show that they were starting. And I was like, great, use it. And it kind of even just kept the song going for even longer, which is awesome. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. So now you have to do like the Jersey Shore song. You have to figure out what the Okay, yeah, all right, yeah. Let's talk about the travel schedule because you're all over the place.

I've been everywhere. I've been to all sorts of places in America already in this month. Where have you not been? I went to a swamp. I went to um Louisiana, and went to a swamp, and saw alligators and you know, everywhere I go, I kind of take a break for an hour or two and go to these crazy places. Why "Strip Me" though? Why that title for the album? The song it makes a lot of sense, but why do you decide to call the album that? For the album it's is much more stripped back musically. I mean it's got guitars, and it's got really cool um electronic drum beats. It's less this and that, just very kind of real and and and, you know, kind of straightforward and fun.

Every day I fight for All my future some things are thousand little wars. I have to choose between I could spend a lifetime. You know, with the economy and everything like that, we're all going through a kind of stripping process where, you know, we're kind of realizing what is important to us. And um, you know, everyone has had something that they love taken away from them. And um I feel like it shouldn't take away our voice and our power as individuals and who we are. Straight me. Strip it all the way. I'll be all right. Take what you want. Steal my pride. Fill me up or cut me down to size. You know, it's it's funny.

We were saying, you know how you were part of The Hills, and now "Strip Me" is going to be part of a major movie that's that's Yeah. Coming out. How do you always get attached to like sort of the hot thing? Number one, it's a Ford movie. Yeah. When you're the main song when you see the trailer, it's all over the place. It's really cool. I mean, I think I'm becoming like like my songs have that kind of brand like the the the film companies approach me because they know that my songs will work well in in with, you know, stories and stuff. I'm I'm doing like radio visits right now, because this is what I did when I first came to America with my song "These Words".

I love you, I love you, I love you. And then with "Unwritten", I went around to the radio stations and we really like personally connected, and I sung everything live, just me and a guitarist and we just kept it really real. So I wanted to do it again. This is my third third album. I just wanted to keep it like real and kind of go back and do the same thing. And it makes you whole. It makes you think about it, think about it, doesn't it? Oh, sometimes all it takes is one voice. Take what you want. And now your brother. How how are things going with your brother? Oh, he's good. He's living in LA. Good. And he has got the most amazing music he's been working on.

Really, really incredible stuff and he's waiting for his moment to like, you know. People might not realize both of you guys have had number one songs in the UK. Yes, we had a um, what do you call it? A Guinness Book of Records. Right. Yeah. And he had it here as well. Um, going to get through this and if you're not the one. And Simon Cowell said that "If You're Not The One" is one of his favorite pop songs in that decade. Speaking of big celebrities saying things like that, somebody by the name of Miley Cyrus, as you know, has actually said you're her role model. She did say that. That's a big deal. Isn't that cool? That's a lot of pressure. That's a lot of pressure.

And you are her role model. Yeah. And you're so young. I mean, how at your age can you be somebody's role model? I mean, like a few years older than her. A few years older, but you're a role model already. That's cool. Yeah. I can't believe how much confidence she has too. Like she's just so effortlessly fun and cool and confident. Let's talk about some of the people you are working with. I mean, Ryan Tedder, huge. He works for the biggest of the big and now you're doing Yes. I'm doing a song with Ryan. Yes. I I I actually the song that we released right now I wrote with Ryan and a guy called Wayne Wilkins and um Yeah, I love him. He's really fun and we write in a very similar way.

We have the similar kind of, you know, the song is king and everything else has to kind of like fit with the song. Thanks.