You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
I'm a painter in sound.
It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
Every song is like a painting.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
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