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I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.