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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.