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I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

I really like melodies.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.