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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

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

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

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

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.