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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.