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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.

I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.