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I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

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.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.