My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.