Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.
Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'
I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.
So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.