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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once people know who you are, once you discover who you are, we're all in the same boat: it's down to whether people appreciate the music or not.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.