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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.