I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.
I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.