It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real depth, and that provoke and challenge people, and then songs that are fun and people can enjoy.
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.
It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.
Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
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