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I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.