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There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.